This is an analysis of the poem Spring Offensive that begins with:
1 Halted against the shade of a last hill,
2 They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacd dcbbee defdbX dXbgghhd iideee efcca jjabXbbii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,6,5,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010011 11111010011 11101000111 11001110111 10101110101 1101111001001 110011110111 110111000111 11101010011 110010111101 1111110100101 110010101001 1101010110011 1101100110101 11101111101 111001010111 111110011001 11111100 11101110101 11111010110 11100110101 101011111001 11001110111 101101011101 11101110101 110010110111 111110111010 110110101110 10111000111 101001011101 1100101111011 110110101001 10011011111 11010110111 110111100111 11111011011 111110100111 111111010001 110111101 1011100100101 11111010111 10101010000 111010101001 11101011101 1011101010 111110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, their, like, no are repeated.
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- summary of Spring Offensive;
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